Dave Scheler

Dave Scheler

BIO:David Scheler has been awarded several honorable mentions in writing contests and has poems published or forthcoming in several Wis. Poets’ Calendars, The Aurorean, Avocet and Ship of Fools. He writes in both French and English and reads publicly in Madison and around the state. He has conducted seminars at UW—Whitewater’s Creative Writing Festival for the past several years and enjoys working with and supporting the contributions and efforts of our new generation of poets. He loves the spoken word and hopes readers and listeners hear the music in his turns of phrase.

PUBLICATIONS:Casting for Meteors (Finishing Line Press, 2011) $14.00

Poetry

What Nighttime Has Tasted

What a strange blanketnight leaves for the day:earth’s morning light,soft fabric of fog.

On her white beda comforter and pillowin exploded array:ice-feather crystalspasted on windowpanes.

Departing from homein dawn’s early glow,what once wasnow draped in a haze.

On frosted landscapetan grass and black treesglaze in a mist;amorphous shadows,silhouettes vanish:where something once was,now nothing.